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All those add-in boards

Are being used for different kinds of games now How the GPU defies gravity and continues to have an increasing market demand. Since the introduction of the PC, which was 1981 believe it or not, we estimate that 2.1 billion AIBs will have been shipped by the end of this year. That’s not the installed base, just the total of ...

Jon Peddie

Are being used for different kinds of games now How the GPU defies gravity and continues to have an increasing market demand. Since the introduction of the PC, which was 1981 believe it or not, we estimate that 2.1 billion AIBs will have been shipped by the end of this year. That’s not the installed base, just the total of all AIBs, shipped using a Microsoft operating system in an IBM PC. There were microcomputers with Intel, and MOS 6502 CPUs, plus some Motorola 88xx systems built as far back as 1975, and some of them had plug-in graphics boards,
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